4 p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. A complete List of BMC commity of the winter Quarter 1943-44 on the last page Clark Foreman left for the charter meetin g of the Southern Regional Conference in Atlanta announces the expected new secretary, Rita E. Foley points out the lack of basic understanding of English grammar and math of some students. Visitors-Mrs Hazel Pennington.
BLACK MOUNTIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College 11 Bulletin 19
Monday, February 14, 1944
CALENDAR:
The Board of Fellows will meet this afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in Study 10.
The International Relations Club will meet this evening at 6:$5 o’clock in the Lobby of the North Lodge to listen to and participate in a debate, Resolved: That the United States Congress should pass the President’s National Service Act. Jack Gifford and Marilyn Bauer will speak for the National Service Act; Barbara Anderson and Jeanna Wacker will speak against it. Paul Radin will act as Chairman to the debate.
The Faculty and the Student Officers will meet in the Kocher Room on Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
The students will hold their regular weekly meeting in the lobby of the North Lodge on Thursday evening at 7:00 o’clock. They will continue their discussion on the Community Work Program.
Because of the technical difficulties relative to its preparations, the Dream Party has been indefinitely postponed.
Albers will give a picture concert in the Dining Hall at 8:00 o’clock on Saturday evening.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Clark Foreman left this morning for Atlanta to attend the charter meeting of the Southern Regional Conference.
The Executive Council of the Asheville Children’s Theatre has approved of Betty Kelley’s ply for a three-act children’s play. This play will be presented by Black Mountain College at the Plaza Theatre on Saturday, April 29. Betty read her plot and discussed it with the Executive Council and a representative group of Asheville elementary school teachers at the George Vanderbilt Hotel last Saturday afternoon.
Barbara Follet gave the first of a series of informal student recitals yesterday afternoon in the College Dining Hall. It was a piano concert. She played J.S. Bach Organ Minor, P.E. Bach’s Solfegietto, Scarlatti’s Sonata in D Major, and two movements of J.S. Bach’s Italian Concerto. The recital took the place of the regular Sunday evening program at the Lowinskys.
Erwin Straus has accepted an invitation to speak before the Maryland Psychiatric Society in Baltimore on Thursday, March 9.
Black Mountain College has been invited to give a thirty-minute-long variety program at an evening meeting of the Asheville Optimist Club at the George Vanderbilt Hotel on Thursday evening, May 4.
Among the visitors during the week was Mrs. Hazel Pennington, Ann Kurtz’s sister.
STAFF ADDITIONS:
Expected on Wednesday: Miss Rita E. Foley, a new secretary, who will work chiefly with Bob Wunsch. Miss Foley is a native of Louisiana, but she has been working as Bookkeeper- Secretary for the Workmen’s Circle Sanitorium in Liberty, New York. For a while before going East she worked for the Eastern Airline Branch at Bates Air Field in Mobile, Alabama.
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NOTES FROM RECENT FACULTY MEETING:
It was pointed out that several students are definitely handicapped because they lack a working knowledge of basic English composition and basic mathematics. These students will be urged by their advisers to take work in composition and mathematics as soon as possible.
The Faculty agreed to permit no student in the future to take Upper Division Examinations until he has proved that he can write clearly and concisely and can use elementary mathematics accurately.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Mrs. Leo Greene (Hyalie Yamins)
Care Corporal Leo Greene
338 Air Base Squadron
Army Air Base
Dalhart, Texas
Junelaine Smith
4239 St. Charles Avenue
Apartment D
New Orleans, Louisiana
IN THE MAIL:
Gisela Kronenberg writes from Chicago: “I intend to enter Lewis Institute in order to finish my premedical training and eventually go to the University of Illinois medical school to get my M.D. I guess the decision had to be made sooner or later, and I have made it now. It makes me very happy because medicine is the field I have always wanted to work in. Whether or not I shall specialize in psychiatry is something I cannot say right now. At this stage of the game I am interested in surgery, in internal medicine, and in neurology. The main goal I have is to become a good doctor…. Otherwise I am working steadily and regularly on the psychodrama research, a piece of work I hope to convert into a paper, and with electroencephalography: learning to take records and interpret them. In addition to that there are rounds to be made with the staffmen, or the residents-staff meetings to be attended, lectures and conferences to be visited. On Friday morning I was up in the operating room watching some neurological surgery on our patients. I was fortunate enough to watch the surgery right from the floor standing directly behind the surgeon.”
Junelaine Smith writes from New Orleans: “My folks left for California last week…and I have a nice apartment with a friend. I am as healthy as an apple a day and am going to see Bill today or next weekend. Hope to start flying again. Soon.”
Tanya Sprager writes from Los Angeles, California: “I am enrolling at the University of Southern California in order to concentrate on academic work, so that I can attain Senior Division standing. After I have made up my academic requirements, I shall consider returning to Black Mountain….I cannot tell you how much I miss Black Mountain and all of you. I look forward eagerly to my return and hope that it will be soon.
Morton Steinau from Philadelphia: “You will perhaps recall that I was laid low the first part of December with- so the doc thought- an infected knee. On December 31, the Army medics had another name for it: prepatellar bursitis, acute…subsequent trips to the doc have revealed only bursitis affects different people very differently. As little exercise as possible is the chief cure. With some people the inflammation and stiffness clear up and go away completely after a few months. And the joint thereafter is as good as it ever was; with some, it recurs with any undue exercise or strain; with some, it recurs anyhow; in a few cases it gets progressively worse, and if it gets bad enough the bursa has to be taken on. Leaving a
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Quite stiff joint (knee, heel, shoulder, elbow- whichever bursa went on the fritz)….So far as I can tell, my knee is coming around ok, only a little stiffness remains. In the meantime I walk as little as possible, and wait.”
Hyalie Yamins Greene and her husband write from Dalhart, Texas: “We have moved again to a tiny prairie town of the ‘panhandle’ it seems fairly close to Bedford Thurman and Lucian Marquis whom we will try to look up when we are settled. The three of us are fine…”
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
New Addresses:
Mrs. Robert Babcock
641 Judson Avenue
Evanston, Illinois
Jessie Ann Nelson
53 Mt. Auburn Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts
IN THE MAIL:
A.A. Babcock writes from Evanston, Illinois: “Babcock #11, Ann, born Feb.5, ’44 in Chicago…Here in Evanston for the duration.Bob finished Supply School at Wellesley Feb. 9th- home for about a week, then to leave the country.”
COMMUNITY WORK SUMMARY:
(Week of February 7 through February 12):
The regular wood chopping crews maintained their pace-incidentally, a pretty fast one- even though the weather was rather cold all week.
Jobs on the farm, besides the ordinary ones of gathering leaves for bedding, husking corn, and generally cleaning up, included the patching of hog and cattle fences and grubbing and plowing the land between the two large fields.
About thirty feet of insulation was installed under the Studies Building.
The area around the nearly completed magnesium pilot plant was cleaned up and put in order.
As a result of the discussions at last week’s Student Meeting the check-out system of tools in the shop was reinstituted and put in working order. All tools were collected, and all the repairs necessary to put them in order were listed. The shop was given a thorough clean-up.
Approximately six pounds of mica were trimmed and inspected.
Coal hauling was continued
Reported by Nell Goldsmith
From the farm came 437 quarts of milk
Reported by Janet Heling
IN THE COLLEGE MAIL:
Gregory L. Conavan writes to the Black Mountain College Faculty from the West Construction Company, Project #294 in Soward, Alaska: “I am tired. Tired of cold and crowded sweaty huts and ice flapjacks. Tired of working for men who have no more sense than mice. Tired of cursing and swearing and foul conversation; of bulbs without shades and of not getting a shower for months at a time. I need rest and refurbishment. And I think the answer is to return to school and begin life again at a new angle….From what I read and hear of you, you have
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The ideal; a refreshing mental bath, a readjustment, a new system. But, as I say, what I know of you is only what I’ve read (in Time) and heard. I’d like to know what you yourselves have to say. Can you help me?”
SUGGESTED READING
Amended Section of Senate Bill 1617 which deals with education of veterans. This is the omnibus bill which also provides for mustering-out pay, home and farm aid, employment and unemployment allowances. It was introduced, with the support of the American Legion, on Januarl 11, by Senator Clark of Missouri, (for himself, Senators George, Walsh of Massachusetts, Conolly, Lucias, Caraway, Vandenberg, Brewster, Wiley, and Guerney).
Hearings on the bill have opened before a subcommittee on Veteran Legislation.
The Faculty may wish to expressits opinion by letter or telegraph to the North Carolina senator or to the chairman (Senator Clark).
MEMBERS OF THE BMC COMMUNITY Winter Quarter 1943-1944
FACULTY
Albers, Anni
Albers, Josef
Bentley, Eric
Cohen, Frederic
De Graff, Frances
Dreier, Theodore
Foreman, Clark
Gregory, Mary (1)
Hansgirg, Fritz
Jalowetz, Heinrich
Kahl, Elsa
Kurtz, Kenneth
Lowinsky, Edward E.
Miller, Herbert
Radin, Paul
Straus, Erwin
Straus, Trudi
Wood, H. McGuire (1)
Wunsch, Robert
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STAFF
Barth, Henrietta
Kumabo, Robert
Lounsbury, Helen
Orr, Robert
Rice, Nell
Strauss, Margaret (2)
Wright, Louise
7
STUDENTS – Boys
Bray, Addison
Brown, Samuel
Bush-Brown, Dick
Campbell, John
Dixon, Daniel
Duxbury, Hampton
Flax, Jerome
Gifford, Frederic
McLaughlin, William
McWilliams, Archie
Stranch, James
Swackhamer, Egbert
STUDENTS- Girls
Albee, Nancy
Anderson, Barbara
Bauer, Marilyn
Bentley, Maja
Bollen, Dorris (4)
Boring, Mollie
Brett, Mary V.
Brown, Susan
Carlisle, Kathryn
Coppeck, Esther
Currier, Gwendolyn
Dinkowitz, Roxane
French, Mimi
Goulet, Lorrie
Gropius, Ati
Hartwig, Faith
Heling, Janet
Kelley, Elizabeth
Klepper, Renate
Knox, Alice
Kriger, Mary
Kulka, Liese
Lott, Irene
Lyford, Harriette
Lynch, Patsy
Mandelbaum, Judith
McKenna, Arlyn (4)
McNeil, Alice
Miller, Ruth
Minster, Louise
Murray, Faith
Osbourne, Virginia
Ostrow, Carol
Povsner, Marita
Povsner, Viera
Pollet, Barbara
Rees, Janet (4)
Ricks, Flora
Schwartz, Olga (4)
Slater, Jane
Stone, Jane
Tentchoff, Dorice
Wacker, Jeanne
Wright, Helen
Wright, Nanette
Yarash, Lana
WIVES AND CHILDREN
Dreier, Barbara
Dreier, Edward
Foreman, Mari
Foreman, Hugh
Foreman, Joan
Foreman, Shelagh
Hansgirg, J.M.
Jalowetz, Johanna
Kurtz, Annarah
Lowinsky, Gretel
Lowinsky, Naomi Ruth
Miller, B.
Orr, Daniel
Orr, Jane
Orr, Lillian
Wood, Emily (1)
16
Farm
Ross and Stella Penley
Penley children (3)
Banks, Roger and Mary
7
Maintenance and Construction
Bascombe Allen
Ben Sneed
Pearson Mundy
Davis Walter
Kitchen
Fow, Malrey
Few, Cornelia
Patton, Bill
Bergin, Bill
4
House Help
Gardner, Willie
Dillingham, Lucy
Lytle, Jessie
3
Maids
Lytle, Gertrude
Dougherty, Margaret
2
On leave this quarter because of health
Graduate Assistant
Work Student
Secretary- Student
